Steph Curry is none of the NBA rookies' favorite player

Even retired players Kevin Garnett and Steve Nash got more votes than the Golden State Warriors star

More players in the NBA's 2019 draft class list Portland Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard (left) as their favorite player than Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry, which is kind of easy, because, well, none of the NBA's rookies list Curry as their favorite player in the 2019-20 NBA Rookie Survey. less

More players in the NBA's 2019 draft class list Portland Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard (left) as their favorite player than Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry, which is kind of easy, because, well, ... more

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More players in the NBA's 2019 draft class list Portland Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard (left) as their favorite player than Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry, which is kind of easy, because, well, none of the NBA's rookies list Curry as their favorite player in the 2019-20 NBA Rookie Survey. less

More players in the NBA's 2019 draft class list Portland Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard (left) as their favorite player than Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry, which is kind of easy, because, well, ... more

Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images

Steph Curry is none of the NBA rookies' favorite player

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Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry is one of the NBA's biggest stars, but he's not the favorite player of the any of the league's rookies, according to the NBA's 2019-20 Rookie Survey.

The survey, which was released on Monday, polls the NBA's newest players on a variety of topics related to their NBA draft class, like who they think will be Rookie of the Year, who they think is the best shooter, or what will be the toughest adjustment to make coming from the NCAA to the NBA.

At the end of the survey, NBA rookies say who their favorite players are, and the top vote getters are who you might expect – LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Damian Lillard. But Curry wasn't just excluded from the top five; he wasn't selected by any rookies as their favorite player.

Interestingly, the six-time NBA All-Star and two-time league MVP (and the league's first unanimous pick for league MVP) was outvoted by Pascal Siakam, the Toronto Raptors guard who was key in bringing down Curry and the Warriors in the 2019 NBA Finals.

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But even retired players Kevin Garnett and Steve Nash were selected as favorites for a rookie class. It's the second time in three years that Curry received no votes from the incoming NBA class. He wasn't the favorite player of anyone in the 2017-18 rookie class, either.

Zion Williamson received 87 percent of the vote for the question of who rookies think is the most athletic member of their draft class. That percentage is the greatest that any player has gotten on any of the questions in the rookie survey, surpassing Curry, who got 79 percent of the 2009 rookie class to say he was the class's best shooter.

Williamson received the most votes from his fellow rookies for likely Rookie of the Year.